The Sun. — London, England, 1808-08-17 00:00:00

Vr SP4 NISH PIPERS; SUPPLEMENT TO SEVILLE GAZETTE, 233 luLv. Goma! DSZLA R A Courier arrived this morning from the army of the .Commander in Chief, with Dispatches which contain the gratifying intelligence that General Du t'oNT's army ha& surrendered at discretion. The army of General WEDEL has also surrendered, or conditton of being 'sent back to France from our Ports. - Copy of ttr'official article inserted in the Sala rpanca Diredory of the .261 h July, by order of the (3 cornander , in-Chief, General CuzsrA : " His Excellency General CUESTA has received from the Junta of Sec lite the account of the defeat and sur render of General DuroNT's army. • The Officers were allowed to keep their swords; and to take only one portmanteau with their cloaihs. This condition Was enforced in ecinsequence of the scandalous con dud of the French,' and the plunder they every' wher e committed." MAnetn,..ittOr 30.-1 n the middle of the night, JOSEPH ~UONAPAILTE set otT and_ took the. road tp France, according ,to-preparations previollgly made. Sorne say this-precipitate .flight was occasioned-by the surrender of DuroNT., with a considerable num ber of prisoners : others think that it is the result of the diticovery of a plot of two French Generals. — The truthis,:that this - rnOrnilig more than 3000 left this Capital on the road to France. The. tat is cer tain--the cause doubt fol. We hope that to-morrow there will not , be a , Frinchmari here. CORUNNA, AUG:B.---DUPONT's division consisted of 8000 men, who surrendered at discretion ; Gen. WEDEL'S, of 5000, laid down their arms, and are to go to Cadiz to be embarked for Rochefort. The French had aOOO killed and wounded. The Spa niatds 1.500. We took 3000 horses and a great number of waggons, laden with plate, gold, and other valuables, 10,000 muskets, great quantities of cloathitig, & c. The Junta of Seville have appointed CAsrANps Commander in Chief. In short, the result of the viaory is 25,000 Prisoners, infantry ; 3000 Cavalry, 75 waggons of gold and plate, the plunder of Con , dova. ORcntrEt.A, -JULY 2.-40 n the third we had a battle with the French, who were corning from Va lencia to Madrid, but as the Enemy were 4000 strong, and the Peasants only .5 or 600, withcnit any Chief, they were forcel to retire. It is said that M. A.Luatclt,E, and the Count Da CORASLI.ON, with 21,0 00 men, inclosed them on three sides. MANZAN A L, JULY 3...—We hear that BESSIERES iS retiring hastily upon surgo,. This is considered As most favourable. Some say it is the ailed of the entrance of our Army into Madrid, and of (he flight of Josatii IEinOWAPARTS ; others, that some revo lutionary movements have broken out in France, and that NAPOLEON• has been seized. Others, with ID ore probability, consider it as the effect of the defeat of DUPONT and MONICEY. . • Con o f an intercepted Letter from General DI7roNT to the: Duke De Ros,tio, Cuannantter-in-Chief of the French Armies in Spain... Sicr)lloit GANZRASi, • " I have tihe honour to inform you, that the 2 nemy has appeared before our position-with aIL his forces. They. took post in front of Andujar, with from i a.io 18;ncrt) men, and several pieces of artil lery, 12-pounders ; whilst - a corps of 3000 men_ : Passed the river below Andujar, and took a position in the Sierra, in our rear. The sixth Proiincial Re girnent was sent to attack them, and repulsed them vigorously. Another Corps - of sor 6000 men threa tened our ..left.flank. Two Battalions of the .4th Legion were sent - to hold - them in check, and had a very severe a6tiol,;with the.Enernv but notwith standing the superiority of their numbers the Enemy could not sueceed;in breaking our troops or putting them into confusion. The Enemy also marched another considerable body towards MenjibPr, near Bayien. tT he Letter then -oes on with some detaits of uninteresting skirmi s h es which to ok place; it concludes in the tellowing, Manner :3 tvcry thing announces that the enemy will ins tnediately make a more serious attack. We shall resist them in the most determined man ner. We are reduced to the greatest distress for want . of provisions: - the soldiers are compelled to subsist upon the most disgusting and loathsome food. " I supplicate your Excellency to hasten to send me the necessary reinforcements, to enable me to resur ne , our - operations against the Enemy. The interests of the Emperor and the King of 54140 1-7equire that we should speedily commence of. Pensive operations against them. (Signed) I ' DUPONT." C oil of Intercepted Letter from General DUPONT to • " I have srt . you, my dear General, the result of the affair a yesterday. We remain masters of the whole of our positions, but we expea that the e netnY will 6peedily renew the attack. " This is the anniversary of ttm viaory of To tosl over the Moors, and' religious prejudicas art? , of the utmost importance at this period in the of airs of Spain. " 1 hive written to. the Commander in Chief to inform him that we' have not a moment to, lose quitting our positiOn, in which we have no longer the means of subsistence. The soldiers are kept all day under arms. The difficulty of procuring provisions is increased, from .the circumstance of the peasants having all aban doned their cottages. ' " In a word, I stand in need' of speedy reinforce itlents and supplies. A bold stroke in Andalusia at present would contribute most essentially to the to tal subjugation of Spain. " I entreat you to send me a supply of medicines , and linen for bandages, for the Enemy have taken our. moving . Hospitals—(Hospitales ambulcintes) in the mountains, and have al..° intercepted the sup plies of medicines coming from Toledo. (Signed) . " DUPONT." PROCLAMATION. GENERAL CASTANOS TO TUE ANDALUSIANS. • " Valiant Andalusiansj—The flame of patriotism. has in a few days burst forth with such brilliancy, that it haS consumed the Oppressors of the Nation. " You desired to be tree, and in a Moinetit yon formed 'a 'protealing Government, and an Army, anxious for battle and for triumph. " Those Legions of Vandals, who for a time sur prised some of your Cities, which they delivered up to plunder ; these insolent men, putted up with the victories they:had gained over nations that were not united, who sold by wholesale the plunder of Europe,. and laid wasie the most fertile fields with fire and the sword, have telt what the love of Coun try and Religion can do. Valiant Andalusians, yours is the glory of Ma rengo, of Jena, and of Austerlitz; the laurels that adorned the brows of those Conquerori are at your feet. " Immortal glory to the hero who has renewed in the Sierra Morena the exploits of FAIIIUS MAXI MLII‘I ! Our children will say—' CASTANOS has triumphed over the French. and his glory did not fill the hopses of our fathers with snourninti.'—Unlad ing laurels.to the brave, who destroyed Ile insolent oppressors of the huinao race. Blessings upon . the wise Government that defended our rights and pre pared. out triumphs ! "- Yet you are not Andalusians alone, you are . Spaniards—Fly; children of Spain, fly to your bre thren on the )tiro, the Douro, and the Xacar ; fly to break the chains pi* the captives of the Tagus, of Mauzanares, and of Lebregat, upon the heads of their oppressors. Blot out from the Spanish soil, even to the last ' footstep of these perfidious wretches—Avenge in their blood the insults th:y have off:red to the shade of a weak and cowardly Government-11..4r you riot the cries of the murdered on the 2d of May Do you not listen to the famentatiOns of the_oppress ed'? Are you not moved by the secret sighs of our FERDIN,IND, weeping his separation train his coun trymen ? War and vengeance!—Tremble,tyrant of Europe, 'upon your throne, you are covered with all sorts of crimes. - - - " Valiant Andalusians ! think no sacrifice too great that is to recover your King and your independence. You possess a country—oe a great nation 7 -iollow the paths of glory and virtue, which under the Goat of Armies, have led you to this first vidory."_ • • . . , ed. A great deal of Rhenish wine is to be sent froin EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN orricnt. PASSEN- hence'for the use of the French troops in Spain, it GER 4N THS HON. COMPANY% SHIP CHARLTO N' . being reckoned by .the physicians better for the sot " . . The Piedolontalse, the terror of the Indian diers than the wines of Spain. • seas, so renowned for'her success and swift sailing, ELBT.RFELD, AUG. i .. , --Our Courant this day mounting 60 guns and 500 men, has been captured makes,known the following : 'at last. The St. Fiorenzo, Captain HAnconsGE, i Yesterday eveniug, at half an hour before mid has had the glory of conquering her. Aftei three night, the Provincial Counsellor THEREMIN re bloody engagements, on three successive days, she Ceived 7iradrirration by a Cohrier, that this' territory stru4 her colours. The brave Captain flakoirtGa is taken possession of in the name of the EMPeror fell in the last engagement. That desperate French NAPOLEON." • 4 Officer, \IOREAIY, was the Second Captain in the i DUSSELDORF, AUG I.7—The State Counsellor, M. Piednoniaise. This is the man who stabbed Cap- BEUGNOTa arrived here the day • • , havin before yester taM LAILKINi, after the capture of •the IParren day, iinniediately * received the compliments of the 'llastitry, and whom Sit EiIWA'RD PELLEW de- different Members of the Administration, and ves noopeed in his public . orders to the Fleet (with terday, in the -name of his Imperial and Royal-Ma deobtful propriety perhaps) as a proper objeal of jesty NAPOLRON, took possession of the Grand Duchy ven o atice, heer should E Te if ev be taken. MORAU of Rem the officers havin.; taken the oath of fidelity. conducted himself in a furious manner during the PAit t 'ts; AUG. 2.---Ilis .31ejest'v the Emperor ar engagement. He Would not sutler his Ship to strike, 'rived at Touhmse on the 24th ofJuly. and 'declared he should never be taken by the Eng- ' Irr the Newspaper called The Journal of the Eni lish alive. At last he discharged his pistols into his pire, of this day, we read the following:— , own body, and was thrown overboard, at his own " For some days past various reports, have been request, before he was dead. " When the Charlton was coming out of Colum- '' propagated with regard . to.Spain and Portugal. lt bo, on the llth of March, we saw the St. Fiorenzo has been asserted that the English have obtained towing the Piedmontaise towards Colombo. The , some, advantages in those two tingdoms ; but the - 1 Piedmontaise was totally dismasted, an d t h e s c. : uncert4inty and contrariety of these reports would ' Ftorenzo appeared to be in a mangled condition, and alone be sufficient to expose their improbability. more shattered in the hull than her prize. We It is true that the English, according to their usual custom, have endeavotaked to excite disturbances; did not know at first what Ships they were. Our ! but it is also certain, that all 'their efforts to make CHANAN and some other of the Passengers, went on Second Officer, accompanied by the Rev. Dr. BU themselves masters of the ports and fleets of Spain ' board both of .the Ships, and carried with them a : have again and again been frustrated. We learn supply of pine apples and other frhits, fOr the sick i from authentic inforMation, that they are not in . and wounded. . i . possession of one harbour or fleet. In Portugal they ."'One of the French Officers gave the. following ' have not ,succeeded better. They have dared to account :—‘ The, Piedniontuise .having heard that . make propositions to the Russian 'Admiral lying in three Indiamen, viz. the Charlton, Metcalfe, and ; the Tagus, hut these were. rejected with scorn and Devonshire, were to prdceed* from Bombay to c o .. i indignation." The Grand, Ductless of - BERG, who ; lately arrived here, will, it is said, in a few days lumbo, without convoy, formed the design of inter depart for the South; the State Counsellor BETlO cepting them at Cape Coworin, where she was sure of filling in with .them, and had determined to fight NOT set out on an important mission, on the 2dth the three ships., Her plan was to board the first In ,of July, from hence to the Grand Duchy of BERG. 'dim= she came up with, without firing a gun, and The five per cent. conaolid. are 84 francs 6o cen • .to throw on board one hundred and fifty men, Fby times. . which means,' said Moreau, 'we shah be sure of ASCHAZESNEURGH, JULY 30.—According to some two of them at least.' Accordingly, on Sunday reports, several persons of respectability in West morning, the 6th day of March, the Piedmontaise j phalia have been taken into cos eddy, though, the discovered the three Indiamen off Cope Comorih, cause is not yet fully known. General Enr-ti, In and N6S just going to bear down upon them, when ' spe&or of Artillery, is come to the Rhine. It is she saw. the St. .Fiorenzo cothe in sight. She then thotight that he iA charged With the inspeaion of made off, and the St. Ftorenza chased her. We now all the artillery establishMents in the eastern part 'of recolleCted, that, on that very morning, we had seen ' the-etnpire. It is probable that, several provisional two large ships, ooe. on the ri;ht, arid one on our reginients of cavalry will be formed 'gut of the [At- . left 3 but we did not.know who they were, and unet4ras depots which are upon the .Upper Rhine. quietly continued our course, perfectly ignorant of . . De:Vs of idantry also arrive ;root lon'. to time. ,_ . , our dahgeer, ce r, or our deliveran." . % i - aTt4ASBURGif, JULY 27.—Marshal KAILVERIVIAN 1 Dukooftiny, has set out from hence. to. Mots-; beim. It is not certain whether his stay in that town will be of any lon g duration-;. but in ,the mean time it appears, that: the review of the right wing ot the army of reserve beingfinished, his Excellency will shortly. return to the environs of gentz, and from thence will go to review• the. centre and left wing of the same army. • FROM _THE DUTCH PAPERS: VIM. 7 A, SLILY .16.-A numerous nieeting of the States of Lower Airstria is,appo:nted for ,the 17th inst. in whch. deliberations will be field with regard to the 'organization of a standmg Militia. Field Marshal Lieutenant Count Ku LoWRATH LLea- ST . EINSKY, Cornmander in 'Chief of Transylvania, yesterday evening again set out on his return thither. To NINGEN, JULY 18.—Ye3terdny his Excellency the P.-rince of PoNTE CoaVo came hither, and on his. arrival' was .saluted by the cannon- on the batteries, and frornythe ships in our Roads. That division of the SpaniSh regiment of Algarva which lies here was marched out to receive the Prince, and these troops were reviewed by his 'Highness. On the departure of the Prince for Husutn/he was accompanied by the Spanish .troops, who asked permission to leave with him a detachment of their number, as a guard. These brave troops. appeared proud of the honour of - accompanying the brother-in-law of their So- veretgn. • BANKS OF THE MAINE, JULY 19.—The Austrian Field Marshal Baron Von WIMPFEN has passed through Augsburgh;' on his way to Paris. Three thousand men are daily employed in the demolition of , the fortress of, Brannan, and by the end of Sep tember it will be completely demolished. ST. PETERSBURGH, JULY 9. —The following Ukase has appeared here " The Imperial Chamber of Commerce hereby makes known to the. Merchants belonging to the Port of St: Petersburg'', that no Merchant Ships with. Russian produce, 'belonging to any nation - whatever, shall sail from those ports of the Baltic which are blockaded • by the English or Swedes, so long as the blockade continues." " St. Petersturgh, July 25, 1808." MADRID, JULY 2-2.—The King arrived here on the 20th, at seven in the evening. The ringing of bells and the sound of cannon announced the an.' proach of his Majesty. All the troops were under a.rm.L ; the Generals and the Members of the Supe rior Authorities went out to meet him. On•the various persons were admitted to an audience. A great many people were,on his way, and at the win dows, while the shout of " Long live the King !" was heard on all sides. In the Courant of the 17th instant we read the following :—" The Prince Pri mate has sent Count Von BUEST, v.'ith a letter c.)t congratulattion on the accession of his Catholic Ma jesty to the Throne of Spain ; in which he says, This noble, religious, and great nation, must natu rally wish to be ruled by. such a virtuous !Ind wise Monarch: We are also informed, that his Majes ty the Emperor of gussia has taken a great interest in this fortunate event of his Majes:y's aecession, and we shall at a future time communicate the letlers of congratulation to that etTe6t. MENTZ, JULY 26.4.—The fOr;fiCallOHS Of this city are to be considerably enlarged, and a part of the HOckheim vin,:yards - will in consequence be destroy etd. I. is calculned that tio,ooo men will be neces sary to garrison this, city, ,and that 250,000 will be requisite to besiege it. The detichments o(cavalry which lay dispersed in our neighbourhood are broke up for Spain. In Cassel, and in this city,, there are various dep6ts, consisting of 4000 :net each, w hich are. evelly day exercised in firing, which. is commonly sign that in a short time they Will be about. to re more, • - - -‘• FaANKroni-, JULY 81.—Oti the 27th instant a number of horses belonging to the Grand Dilke; of BERG passed, through here,their farther decination not being known, though some say it iS for Naples. --The Prince of Boa&ossr., Colonel of the 4th Re giment of Cuirassiers, has wipe to Bayreuth, 'where his regiment is cautoned, and a report has prevailed that . m,;nyTreneh troops, are expected' in those Pro vinces, where there are great magazines to be form- PO LICE. BOW-tTREET.,--Yesterday morning, the trades man who stood suspeaed (if the murder of his wife,. was again examined beaire Mr. READ, when, in addition to the evidence adduced on Monday, to sub, stantiate innocence, and which was corroborated by the verdia of the Coroner's Inquest, the coach- Man who drove the Newcastle coach from London appeared, and identified his p?rson, as having taken him upon his coach; on Tnorsdav evening, a , six o'clock, at the Bull and Mow h Inn, and carried him as far as he went with 'the coach, Which was to a place called Brick Wall, about f2s`miles , troin town, on the North Road, and where he !eft him to pro ceed on with the coach. The coaChman also proved bringing him and a young woman to town, cwt ,Sun day morning, from Brick Wail, by the same mach, [lnd putting them down at Highgate, as stated by the Prisoner. Added .to these circumstances, the deceased was seen:and spolien to by a neighbour, in Cottpton-street, about ten o'C;ock on . Thutsday night, when she appeared in a -very dejeaed.state of mind, and, from, her conversariOn, gave reas , in to believe she intended. to destroy herself. . The Ma-, gistrate, • therefore, discharged the 2r.sofier, ex pressing. himself perfectly satisfied of his inno cence. I'i,RI,I3OIIOUGH, - STREF.:T.-Ysterday, a woman of the town;tiamed Frances Williams.,.wa , : charged by the Constable of the Night,' with having, on Monday night laSt, robbed a Colonel Siticlaire of three' one-pound Bank of Enejatid notes.. The Constable stated; that Colonel Sin Claire de clined appearing as a iko,ecutor, from humane Mo tives, notwithstanding that the robbery yea s a:tended with very aggravating cirOiinstaiims., Co!ohel Sin claire passing,.at a late hour on Monday night, through Charles-stre,et, Mary-le-bone, was address ed by the Prisoner, who f .counterfeiting feelings of the most pognant alarm and distress, told him the house in the Court where she lived was on fire! and entreated him to come mnd give his assistance to save the lives of the women and children, its inhabitants. 'The gallant Colonel, ever alive to those frelingsof hummity and adive benevolence which always sway' the brave, instantly desired to be conduaed to the place where his efforts would be serviceable; and was led by his conchii;trass to quite a different scene from that he expected to find ; namely, the centre of a gang of loose Vointn, :and tin* bullies, who hustled tried -i-inverted his PoeketS, and emptied them of their content 4 fin-innately for hiingelt, he had only three one - pound Bank notes. The gallant Colonel thus ambuseuded by a ruse de do no more 012111 alarm the watch ; but, before their arrival, ihe main body had etteCted a retreat, and _ left none but toe Prisoner to be taken. She, of course, denied . the charge; and Colonel Sinclaire not tipTie.aring,:she was, necessarily dis.charged. ILLEGAL. 'FlG..—lnformition having. beets given at !his Claice2 by some peaceable inhabitiniti in 'Lisle street, Leicester-square, that a nuisance, which di turbed the - neighbourhood at unseasonable hours,, existed at a house its the above street, 'where there was a public dancing-rOotu, Foy, Burton, - Jackson., and Craig, Officers,' were sent with warrants on Monday night, tb take'such persOns into custody a§, they should find assembled there :---On•going up stairs, the Company, consistiug of twenty-one per sons, chiefly gentienien'S servants, were tripping On the light Cintastic toe the room belonged to . Georg - e lirisset, and Alin,. • who were merely lodgers, - and „had often been, remonstrated with on th"e impropriety of.their colidirl by the landlord of the home, who had endeavbtired to rid .himself of the nuisance. The Defendants wee Se 'eiallv held to bail till the SessionS. The proprietor ' of the rooms is liable to a fine of 1001. or imprison ment. • The French General LotScis - had lately a narrow: escape from assassination while quartered at Pszo da Regoa :—A Portuguese waited upiin his IjOtiresS, and apprised her that he had laid a plan to put to death the infamous Lotst*, who had committed so many aas . of barbarity coontrymen, and requested her concurrence and - assistance to escape when the deed was accomplished.. The woman at first consented, but having a family of seven Chil dren, she became alarmed, lest they, with herself, Should be sacrificed by the French, as viBiins for the death of their General. The vlan was fortunately in consequence abandoned.• . _ _ The General Order which His MAJEgTY . has is sued, by the advice;of the Duke of ••Yoatt, 'respect irtg- 4 ) e di.ipe,nsing with queues,. is supposed to have been owing. to a - .suggestion from several :medical Gentlemen ; they being of opiniou r that the cause of hot peculiarly fatal to the British Army, was owing to the quantity of heir. Tt.e eyes are particularly liable to 'be affeeted by too gre-at a quantity being, woin. We have received a .Iqtter from a Correspondent at Bath, informing us that we had incorreCtly stated the Verdia of the Coroner, upon the body of the poOr man who was killed by the High Constable,, at Lansdown Fair. :The articie alluded to we took from a MOrning Paper, and the Verdi&, we 'are inform 0,: was not " - justifiable . homicide," but Manslaughter. ' - BOXING.—A most determined and sanguinary battle was fought on Monday morning, adjoining Rbttenclen Common, in the vale of. Berkshire, be tween George Marrn, an ostler, and. Adam Bii ln, a champion from the West.. ,The match was for 10.0 guineas, and the exhibition took ,ptace in the pre 7 sence of a nUrnerons . held . of country.sportsmen.--- , Marsh was two stone header than .Bivin„ who was something under i i stone; bUt to balance the match, he-.was , a much :better:tighter than M-rsh,,who, however, with the saute bottom, ultimately won the battle by weiht and strength. The conflict was oh stittately maintained for full two hours,; and, even at the trin , .lusion, both were so beat, that it was belling thin neither would be brought to set-to ogain„, Marsh ,stii sO, owever, with ti, , assist.,ince u : hi, c o ivi an I ho(cle-holrfer, and his adversary was' cat ' tied off the ground.